Christmas Stories
Well, the Hallmark channel countdown to Christmas has begun. From now through the twelfth day of Christmas you can tune in to a Christmas movie twenty four hours per day seven days per week. I don’t know if that channel has two of my own favorites; “A Christmas Carol” were Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future – and “It’s A Wonderful Life” where the angel Clarence allows a depressed George Bailey to see what life in his town would have bee
Advent: A Season of Hope
Advent is a joyous time of year. But it can also be SAD. I’m talking about S.A.D. as in “seasonal affective disorder.” It is sort of a depression some people experience because of weather and lack of sunshine. This time of year the sun dips lower in the sky and darkness comes earlier. We have to dig our winter clothing. We can’t spend as much time outside as we had only a month earlier. We are thinking about getting flu shots and having the furnace looked at. But, as i